The
Reformed church in America recognizes its mission to be a servant of God, to do
God's work in a world that needs the personal Christ more than it needs anything
else, the world for which God's Son died, the world to which we owe the Lord
Jesus Christ, who has promised to draw it unto himself if we will but lift it up
to Him in our lives.

Credit
is usually given the Puritans for that article in the constitution that forbids
a state-church. But some of us find it difficult to reconcile this award
with the Puritan treatment of Quakers and Ana-Baptists. Even a cursory
reading of the ecclesiastical history of New York convinces one that it was the
Dutch who resisted successfully the determination of the church of England to
establish itself as the official body of the country. What Mrs. Hemans
wrote concerning the Pilgrims would be more appropriately applied to the Holland
Dutch who settled Manhattan Island.